Why leave the house you built with your own two hands for the one your good buddy built with his?

The answer is quite clear: He shouldn't.

If Bob Stoops is smart, he will stay at Oklahoma. He will tell Florida Athletics Director Jeremy Foley today thank you for thinking about me; thank you for the consideration; thank you for the generous offer to coach at a great university.

But no thank you.

The grass is meaner on the other side of the fence.

By the time you read this, Stoops may have already accepted or rejected the Florida job. There were reports early Sunday that he had taken the job, but then a family member said Stoops had sequestered himself inside his house to wrestle with the decision of a lifetime. Foley reportedly has flown out to Oklahoma to make one final, frantic push to convince Stoops to become the next coach at Florida.

The last time Foley made a major hire at UF, he came out of nowhere and identified a kid coaching prodigy by the name of Billy Donovan. That was pretty impressive. But, now, Foley is trying to hire Stoops, the most sought-after college football coach in the country. Stoops is the same guy who pretty much gave Notre Dame the Johnny Paycheck treatment. You know, Take Your Job and Shove It.

Billy and Bobby. The last time somebody made two hires like that, Sam and Dave signed on with Stax Records.

Comparatively speaking, convincing Donovan to come to Florida wasn't that difficult considering he was coaching Marshall at the time. Stoops is a much different story. He's coaching at a school that has more tradition, much more tradition, than Florida.

At Oklahoma, he is Bob Stoops, his own man.

At Florida, he is "Stoopsy" -- Steve Spurrier's understudy and successor.

At Oklahoma, Stoops is a gridiron god who woke up the echoes and returned the Sooners to glory.

At Florida, he is the guy who replaced Spurrier.

At Oklahoma, Stoops is building his own legend.

At Florida, he is just adding to Spurrier's.

At Oklahoma, they will be patient because they are grateful for what Stoops has done.

At Florida, they will be impatient because they are longing for what Steve Spurrier once did.

Don't get me wrong, the Florida job is a great coaching opportunity -- if you're a sleeper candidate like June Jones at Hawaii or Tim Murphy at Harvard or Gary Crowton at BYU -- but not if you're Bob Stoops and you already have a great job.

Seriously, why would you follow Stephen Orr Spurrier, the greatest football hero and the greatest football coach the Gators have ever known, if you didn't have to?

Does Stoops want to become Ray Perkins, the coach who followed Bear Bryant?

Does he want to become Gene Bartow, the coach who followed John Wooden?

Does Bob Stoops want to become the next Phil Bengston.

You probably don't even know who Phil Bengston is, do you?

Well, that's my point.

Phil Bengston is the guy who followed Vince Lombardi in Green Bay.

Stoops has it made at Oklahoma. He makes $2 million a year. He's adored by the fans. He doesn't have to worry about job security.

There's no logical reason for Stoops to come to Florida.

Then again, there really was no logical reason for Steve Spurrier to leave Florida.